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the diversity of race amongst mankind, much power has been 

 ascribed to the effects of time and climate : but the facts with 

 which we are now becoming better acquainted than before, do 

 not appear to admit of explanation from those circumstances. 

 It is worthy of notice that the negro, and the light-haired and 

 blue-eyed people, the two races who might be deemed at the 

 greatest distance apart amongst the varieties of man, at-e, equally 

 with the intermediate Egyptians, the descendants of Ham. 



Of the succession of kings in Manetho's chronology, from 

 Sesostris to the Persian conquest, a space of nine centuries and 

 a half, about one half the names have been already identified 

 on different monuments: four of the Persian monarchs, subse- 

 quent to the conquest, have also been traced in inscriptions in 

 phonetic characters ; their names are ^vritten, as nearly as can 

 be spelt with our letters, Kamboth, (Cambyses) ; Ntariousch, 

 (Darius) ; Khschearscha, (Xerxes) ; and Artakschessch, (Ar- 

 taxerxes.) 



The ascent by monumental evidence to yet more remote an- 

 tiquity than the expulsion of the Phoenician shepherds, (B.C. 

 1822), is not altogether without hope, notwithstanding the 

 general demolition of the temples of the gods, which took 

 place according to Manetho, during the long dominion of the 

 Phoenicians in Egypt. We learn from the Description de 

 VEgypte that even the most ancient structures at Thebes are 

 themselves composed of the debris of still more ancient build- 

 ings, used as simple materials, on which previously sculptured 

 and painted hieroglyphics are still existing ; these are doubtless 

 the remains of the demolished temples, but the inscriptions will 

 require to be studied on the spot. There is also reason to be- 

 lieve, that there exists amongst the ruins of the palace of Karnac, 

 a portion of still more ancient construction than the palace itself; 

 which, having escaped demolition, was incorporated with the 

 more recent building. The inscriptions on this apparently very 

 ancient ruin present the name and title of a king, which form a 

 very interesting subject for future elucidation. The title does 

 not accord with any one now extant on the table of Abydus, but 

 possibly may have been one of those which were destroyed with 

 a portion of the wall, and which are of kings of earlier date than 

 the expulsion of the shepherds. The name is Mandouei, which 

 name occurs in the dynasty anterior to Sesostris^ but coupled 



